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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1930
Page
3
The department notes social news will be prepared by Mrs Teabelle P Miller and she will call between 3 and 4 p m for the following day. Phone number provided.
At a Martinsburg party honoring her twenty first birthday Miss Freeda Viola Heck announced her engagement to Abner I Johnson of Winchester son of Mr and Mrs C D Johnson of Kabletown. Miss Heck a Martinsburg High School graduate class of 1926 and City Hospital training school for nurses class of 1929 now nurses privately in Martinsburg. The wedding is planned for June with out of town guests from Hagerstown Md Mr D A As to change next meeting place of Fort Loudoun Chapter DAR due to sickness in the Rosenberger family to Mrs Stuart Edmonds 313 W Leicester St on Wednesday January 8 at 3 o clock. Mrs Nina Swann Reed of Washington will speak on The World Fresh Every Hour. Dr J Swank Jr has returned to Virginia Military Institute to complete engineering studies. Dorothy Anderson hosted a New Year bridge party with 25 guests. Q C Davidson has leased the Belmont estate near Leesburg from Edward B McLean.
The Winchester Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will hold its regular monthly meeting at 4 PM Monday January 6 at the nurses home on West Clifford Street. All members are urged to attend as the election of officers for the coming year will be on the agenda.
Miss Margaret Flickinger and her relatives returned to classes at William and Mary College after spending Christmas with Rev. Dr. and Mrs. S. L. Flickinger at their North Washington home. Miss Ethel Hartman accompanied them. Visitors included Prof. Robert Schneider from Yale economics and Prof. Merlin Bengsten from William and Mary Latin.
Basketball practice for the Girls' Athletic Association team will be held next Monday night at 7 30 at Handley High School gym. All members and interested players should attend as the session is important. The next game is Thursday night January 10 at Handley against Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
Out-of-town mourners arrived for the funeral of Ralph Strosnider. Attendees included L D Drummond and daughters from Chambersburg Pennsylvania and others from Hagerstown Maryland Dillbeck Virginia and Harrisonburg Virginia with several Strosnider relatives among the guests.
Earl Cuthbert and Arthur Seabright won three turkeys and two chickens at the Greenway Gun Club shoot on New Year’s Day in Halfway Maryland. About 30 sportsmen participated as residents and visitors arrive for domesday weekend activities at nearby towns.
Miss Mary Hyde returns to New York to study while A G Swanson and grandson Jack spend days in Washington. Loring Staples goes back to Randolph Macon College Ashland Virginia after holidays with Stephens City parents. Various families hosted New Year guests including Harvey Richard Wade Keeler Sally Rudolph and Laura Steele. Franklin Lovett attends footwear show in St Louis for spring buys. Mrs Abney Payne departs Charston West Virginia after holidays with relatives.
Stock prices fluctuated in a narrow trading range with no clear leadership. Bulls failed to attract followers and bears hesitated to push declines as call money fell from six to five percent signaling tentative market mood in New York.
Secretary Mellon said the Coast Guard acted within instructions when firing on the liquor smuggling boat Black Duck near Newport, killing three. He joined Admiral Billard and Assistant Secretary Lowman in defending officers, noting warning given and pursuit continued to stop violators under law.
The screen actor Richard Dix is reported engaged to Maxine Glass, a 21 year old University of Southern California student and resident of Long Beach California. The couple's engagement is noted in society circles, with no immediate wedding plans disclosed.
SAN PEDRO Cal Jan 3 A briefing convened today on the U S S Saratoga to determine the cause of a gasoline fire that killed two men burned four others and damaged the ship a gig valued at 25000 and the starboard side The dead are Mathew Schenectady NY and Vincent Valentine Taylor Brooklyn NY The injured are George Brey Annapolis Md and Albert Lee Houston Centralia Washington seriously burned with doubtful recovery
In Paisley Scotland residents mourn the cinema fire victims as fifty of the 72 children killed are buried. Flags half staff and blinds drawn mark the day as funeral processions move through the town to the cemetery.
A Texas senator stranded by a northern Indiana snowstorm spent days cut off from civilization and out of reach. The Louisville Courier Journal notes such situations may affect several senators who might be named.
Winchester and Wardensville Railroad Company files December 11 1929 with the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate a line from near Winchester to Wardensville about 58 miles across Frederick County Virginia and Hampshire and Hardy Counties West Virginia. Secretary Alice L Osburn signs the notice.
At Folsom California on January 3 two of six death sentences for the mugging of convict George Baker during the 1927 Thanksgiving riot were carried out. Anthony Brown hanged before Roy E. Stokes.
The weather bureau forecast a return to winter as a warm spell ends. Washington recorded 66 degrees at 2 p.m. with January 2 marks among the warmest on record, only surpassed by 70 degrees in 1916 and 86 in 187? on the same date.
A Detroit Free Press opinion rounds on the Senate lobby committee calling it an aging group preoccupied with gossip and scandalmongering rather than effective oversight. The piece frames the panel as inward and unproductive.
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